Winchester 36 9mm Garden Gun

[rcmodel]

I just got done polishing the chamber on a Winchester 36 Garden gun for a friend and took it out to test fire it.
I got to say the thing is a hoot!

Fiocchi at least, still makes 9mm rim-fire 1/4 oz. shotgun shells in 6, 7 1/2, 8, and 9 shot sizes. Noise & recoil are about like a .22 RF.

As for power & patterning, I was very impressed.
I shot a beer can with a #6 load at 20 paces and sent it flying with 15 - 20 holes through it.

Another shot at a starling in a tree with 7 1/2 shot at about 30 yards resulted in a DRT starling.

If someone still made a 9mm RF garden gun like this, and ammo was a little more available, I would buy one in a heartbeat!

I think we could use something like this a lot worse then all the new "cartridge of the month" intros coming from Federal, Hornady, Ruger, and others.
(that do nothing old standby calibers don't already do just as well.)

The arms companies are missing a sales bet by not bringing the 9mm RF Garden Gun back!

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[Gordon]

I want one !

 

[Dave McCracken]

Sounds like a fun piece. A few decades past, I got to play with a 44 caliber version, an off brand break action single chambered for 44 XL. Had maybe 75 rounds for it.

We'd sit under a mulberry and pick off starlings as they came in. We also used a 22 with the old rat shot loads for when they had landed. The 44 was much more effective.